As for 2015, the Wall Street Journal has reported that Google Play had 70% more app downloads than Apple’s App Store in the first quarter of 2015, but Apple’s app revenue was about 70% higher than on Google PlayĪctually lets forget about the figures and dive deep into what kind of programmers use which app store and why.įirst and foremost, most developers produce IOS apps because Apple’s App Store continues to generate more revenue than Google’s Play Store for developers. The Android Market was re-branded as Google Play on March 6, 2012, as it was merged with Google Music, and Google eBookstore. Google’s store managed to surpass Apple’s, in terms of the number of apps available, towards the end of 2014. This trend continued into 2012 where the number of apps surpassed 500,000 for the first time and the total number of downloads reached 25 billion. However it was still a long way behind Apple’s App Store.ĭuring 2011 Google hit three major targets, 3 billion total downloads, then 6 billion total downloads and then 10 billion total downloads. By 2009 it contained some 2300 apps and by the summer of 2010 there were 80000 apps available, and the total number of downloads had surpassed the coveted 1 billion mark. Google launched the Android Market in 2008 with only a handful of apps. both apps were lunched in 2008 but apple took a great lead with 500 applications and recorded over 100 million downloads in 3 months. Apple and iOS had a head start with apps, but now Android has caught up and even overtaken it: how this will play out is far from certain.
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